The legal framework for generative AI — large language models, or LLMs — is still very much TBD. But things aren’t looking great for the news companies dreaming of billions in new revenue from AI companies that have trained LLMs (in very small part) on their products. While elements of those models’ training will be further litigated, courts have thus far not looked favorably on the idea that what they produce is a copyright infringement.
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Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong
Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age. Many companies are testing the new technology at a time when human workers fear it could cost jobs. But the process is fraught in journalism, which builds and markets its values-based products around the notions of truth and transparency.
Source: Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong
California’s privacy watchdog eyes AI rules with opt-out and access rights
California’s Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is preparing for its next trick: Putting guardrails on AI. The state privacy regulator, which has an important role in setting rules of the road for digital giants given how much of Big Tech (and Big AI) is headquartered on its sun-kissed soil, has today published draft regulations for how people’s data can be used for what it refers to as automated decision-making technology (ADMT*). Aka AI.
Source: California’s privacy watchdog eyes AI rules with opt-out and access rights | TechCrunch
IFPI shares fans’ views on AI amid latest EU AI Act pressure
The body has published some findings from its upcoming ‘Engaging with Music 2023’ report, which has surveyed more than 43,000 music fans across 26 countries. It found that 89% of those people are aware of AI technologies, and that 79% agree that ‘human creativity remains essential to the creation of music’.
Source: IFPI shares fans’ views on AI amid latest EU AI Act pressure – Music Ally
These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes.
As rapid advances in AI image-generation tools make automated images ever harder to distinguish from real ones, experts say their proliferation on sites such as Adobe Stock and Shutterstock threatens to hasten their spread across blogs, marketing materials and other places across the web, including social media — blurring lines between fiction and reality.
Source: These look like prizewinning photos. They’re AI fakes.
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
Sam Altman was reinstated late Tuesday as OpenAI’s chief executive, the company said, successfully reversing his ouster by OpenAI’s board last week after a campaign waged by his allies, employees and investors. The company’s board of directors will be overhauled, jettisoning several members who had opposed Mr. Altman. Adam D’Angelo, the chief executive of Quora, will be the only holdover.
Source: Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria on Monday offered a full-throated denial of one of the authors’ core theories that Meta’s AI system is itself an infringing derivative work made possible only by information extracted from copyrighted material. “This is nonsensical,” he wrote in the order. “There is no way to understand the LLaMA models themselves as a recasting or adaptation of any of the plaintiffs’ books.”
Source: Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block in AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta
OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training
OpenAI and Microsoft were sued on Tuesday over claims that they misused the work of nonfiction authors to train the artificial intelligence models that underlie services like OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI copied tens of thousands of nonfiction books without permission to teach its large language models to respond to human text prompts, said author and Hollywood Reporter editor Julian Sancton, who is leading the proposed class action filed in Manhattan federal court.
Source: OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training
The World Press Photo Contest updates rules to exclude AI images
The World Press Photo Foundation initially said it would welcome AI-generated submissions — a decision met with immediate backlash from photojournalists who said allowing artificially created images into a contest for photojournalists responsible for documenting real-world events was “anathema to everything our industry does.” The foundation has since rolled back its new AI submission guidance and updated contest rules to bar AI-generated images from its Open Format category.
Source: The World Press Photo Contest updates rules to exclude AI images
Music creators’ body criticises UK government over AI roundtable
The creative industries – and their creators – have plenty of views on how artificial intelligence technologies should be regulated. And they are very keen to communicate those views to the politicians who’ll be responsible for crafting the legislation to make those regulations happen. However, the British government’s latest efforts to canvass those views has sparked criticism from one of the bodies that represents musicians: the Council of Music Makers.
Source: Music creators’ body criticises UK government over AI roundtable – Music Ally